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Friday, February 25, 2005

In the pages of National Geographic

____From "beneath Irish isles," the photos of Brian Skerry and article by Jennifer Holland bring the arm-chair geographer into a marvellous undersea visit among green and blue-hued seaweed and pastel coloured anemones. The little maps beckons the aspiring traveller with the images and names of places such as Cork city, the bays Roaringwater, Dunmanus, Bantry, Ballinskelligs, St Finan's , Dingle, Liscannor, South Sound, Aran Islands, Valentia Island, Skellig Rocks, Tralee town, the river Kenmare.____Quite a different story, while just as beautiful in its painful way, is the article "Medellin Stories from an Urban War" a photo travelogue revealing surprising beauty in the midst of the exposition of the sordid. Eliza Griswold and photographer Meredith Davenport explore the dichotomy of the city's 'yuppies' and poor. Still reading it as the stove beeps, telling us that the cheese pizza I bought in Donne is now re-heated.

You are the Gender Abolitionist type of feminist. This means that you
feel the best way to destroy patriarchal oppression is to rid ourselves
of misguided gender roles, and instead live in a society that does not
make such marked assumptions about gender differences. The Gender
Abolitionist is culturally radical, but rather conservative when it
comes to sexual liberation and politics. You have a strong sense of
human rights for all. In fact, you are actually a very moral person.
You don't see people in terms of gender and are thus very philosophical
in order to perceive the world in such a manner. You think people
shouldn't identify others in terms of gender. When most people see a
person, the first thing they think is "That person is a woman" or "That
person is a man", but they do NOT think "That person is a
short-fingernail". Most make someone's gender their IDENTITY, but
fingernail length would never be considered part of their identity. A
gender abolitionist would claim gender should be like fingernail
length--it shouldn't be part of someone's identity. By making gender a
part of identity, difference is emphasized and oppression is often
justified. Thus, gender shouldn't be regarded to such a large extent by
society. You are mostly concerned with seeing women become fully
equalized with men by eliminating gender roles, as these roles oppress
women.